Fridge Pack rolls out for Dasani (sidebar)

The company called T-Tek Material Handling (Montgomery, AL), a vendor it had worked with on the first Fridge Pack production line. In the end, T-Tek recommended a wider matte-top conveyor that could carry the multipack six-cans-wide, rather than two-cans-wide as it did in the first line.

“Most beverage companies don’t have conveyors that can handle multipacks that are six-cans-wide,” says T-Tek’s Mike Traff. “In this case, it was a relatively short run to the palletizer, and the company bought a wide conveyor that would handle this wide package.” Alliance Industrial (Lynchburg, VA) supplies the conveyor.

With the wide conveyor, the new system now can produce Fridge Packs at 125 packs/min, up from about 110/min for the first line where the packs are still conveyed two-cans-wide, according to Dave Brown, Coke Consolidated’s manager of engineering.

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